Community Building Association’s Reaction against Public Funding

：A Case Study for Rural Community Organization in Midwestern Taiwan

Abstract

　　　Taiwanese economical growth of the last four decades brought huge changes to its society. These changes include some local problems such as gap of living standard between urban and rural area. To cope with these issues, organizations for "community" building have been formed in local society since mid-1990s. Following the movement, Taiwanese public sector has also begun to aid their activity. However, former researchers have pointed out dyadic relations are prior in Chinese society, including Taiwan, and communal relations are relatively looser. This paper analyzes the relationship between "community" building organization and public funding policy. D association has conducted "community" activity, in a village of west Taiwan. We analyzed their acquisition of organizational resources (human resource, land resource, and financial resource) for activity. Our study showed personal networks play an important role in the resource acquisition of D association. They utilize personal network of members, but do not necessarily follow the objection which public policy expected. D association changed their form of activity to follow resource environment, and reacted against public funding policy. There is a gap between the organization utilizing personal networks and communal policy objectives.